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Sherman Dorn
Pork-barrel airplane hangars or science?
Florida State University physics professor Paul Cottle has a wonderful way of comparing the state’s science-education needs with what the state legislature’s pork-barrel politics has produced in the recent past: think about the $6 million cost of the airplane hangar former House Speaker Ray Sansom stuffed into the budget a few years ago pretending to […]
And now, Harvard digs deep in the public interest–NOT!
Is there anyone else who read of Harvard’s new tuition-free doctorate in ed leadership supported by the Wallace Foundation and first thought, “Oh, that’s in competition with the Broad leadership indoctrination inbreeding mutual backscratching society training”? I know what faculty and administrators thought: if there’s a (reputational) market for a tuition-free, glitzy finishing school for […]
Reality-check request
I have what should be a more long-lasting podcast that I’m starting for both of my classes this semester. It’ll be a set of historical perspectives on education news, and it should be public-access, though it’s hosted on a walled-garden CMS. Right now there are three podcasts, and I’d appreciate if someone could try to […]
Whirlwind notes
Idiosyncratic comments of the week: I found out about a death in the family last week. Fortunately, everyone on that side of the family is sane, so we only have grieving and normal headaches involved. I am going to be even further behind than I had already anticipated. Or I’ll just have to put more […]
In honor of rivalries
By Sherman Dorn on September 17, 2009
This afternoon my son will be on a bus with his marching band for a “road” game where his school’s football team is playing my daughter’s school’s football team. Minor irony: I can’t pick him up at the end of the game because he needs to go back with the band (to put away his […]
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